Procurement Senior Manager

ABOUT WELLA

Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.

Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally and a presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders. For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com.

ABOUT  PROCUREMENT

At Wella Procurement you are responsible for bringing the best ideas, talent and capability to support the company’s business needs.  You will develop and execute sourcing strategies which deliver best value in terms of innovation, quality, service, cost and cash. 

We invest in our relationships: procurement teams develop and manage important external business partner relationships to enable the delivery of the company’s plans and growth objectives. 

Working with your Wella colleagues you will represent our business needs toward external business partners and be an active advocate who also flows ideas from our external partners into Wella teams.  You will work to enable an agile and effective supply chain for all our goods and services, responsive to the changes in our business.

At Wella we strive to continuously improve the environmental and ethical profile of our supply chains working with our business partners to deliver this in a truly sustainable way.

We operate with discipline. We have a solution mindset.  We work to understand and help solve the challenge, one step at a time.

THE ROLE

The role of Global Category Senior Manager for the EMEA plastics & Global Aluminium tubes is to develop and execute a robust Packaging strategy for all the various plastic segments for the company.  This is an exciting opportunity to influence the supply chain sourcing decisions and strategic choices in this area building upon previous corporate strategies and experience while shaping them to fit the needs of a smaller and more agile business.

Today this Packaging segment represents a multi–Millions of US$ spend spread over 6 subcategories and over 20+ suppliers around the world. 

As such, you are responsible for driving strategy, savings initiatives, contract stewardship and business plans with discipline to deliver the fiscal year objectives as well as longer term interventions in the 3-5 years horizon.

You will ensure appropriate support and alignment with regional and local teams, R&D, Operations, Supplier galaxy and Finance in the implementation and execution of the strategy and projects.

You will build a cost efficient and agile supply to deliver sustainable savings, innovation focusing in particular on sustainable solutions and interventions, leveraging on industry dynamics and suppliers.

Wella is committed to improving our ethical and environmental footprint so you will be expected to work towards this important objective with our external and internal business partners

This is an exciting moment to join this team and lead one of the key packaging segment for the newly established Wella Company. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design/ refine and implement new sourcing strategies and strategic interventions across the Packaging categories to best serve the new Wella Company
• Deliver fiscal year targets in 2026 and establish 3/5-year business plan for related spend
• Implement Supplier Relation Management program and drive Year on Year improvement in quality, service, talent and value
• Support business plan to improve ethical and environmental sourcing
• Implement governance and control including contractual agreements and policies
• Develop in-depth category fact based from robust data analysis and cost modelling while building current and forward-looking Market / Industry intelligence
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver effective value engineering programs

QUALIFICATIONS 

Profile and education:

• First experience in Direct Procurement, at least 3 years
• Proven experience in working in an international environment and matrix organization
• Degree qualified preferably in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business or other relevant discipline.
• High degree of fluency of English is required

Key competencies and demonstrated Skills:

• Result oriented, hands-on individual with solid track record
• Strategic thinking balanced with ability to execute
• Strong analytical skills and project management capabilities
• Ability to interact and work efficiently across supply chain
• Proven Influencing, Negotiation, Communication and Presentation skills
• Knowledge in executing sourcing of directs
• Able to travel to support the business